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Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Joseph Tham

    1. Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum, School of Bioethics, Rome, Italy

  2. Alberto Garcia

    1. Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum, School of Bioethics, Rome, Italy

  3. Gonzalo Miranda

    1. UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, Rome, Italy

  • Delves deeper into the Principle of Vulnerability which was proposed in the 2005 UNESCO Declaration in Bioethics and Human Rights
  • First book to analyze vulnerability from the religious perspective
  • Based on a dialogue between experts from six major world religions about the meaning of vulnerability
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advancing Global Bioethics (AGBIO, volume 2)

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With the advance of biomedicine, certain individuals and groups are vulnerable because of their incapacities to defend themselves. The International Bioethics Committee as a UNESCO working group has for the last several years dedicated to deepen this principle of human vulnerability and personal integrity. This book serves to supplement this effort with a religious perspective given a great number of the world’s population is affiliated with some religious traditions. While there is diversity within each of these traditions, all of them carry in them the mission to protect the weak, the underprivileged, and the poor. Thus, here presented is a collection of papers written by bioethics experts from six major world religions—Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism—who were gathered to discuss the meaning and implications of the principle of vulnerability in their respective traditions.        

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction: The Principle of Vulnerability: Meeting Ground of Six Religions

    • Joseph Tham
    Pages 1-7

  3. General Considerations on the Principle of Vulnerability in Bioethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Vulnerability: How did the principle Come About?

      • Gonzalo Miranda
      Pages 11-14

    3. The Principle of Vulnerability in the UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

      • Henk ten Have
      Pages 15-28

    4. Vulnerability: Considerations on the Appropriate Use of the Term in Bioethics

      • Martha Tarasco Michel
      Pages 29-37

  4. Religious Perspectives of Vulnerability from Philosophical, Ethical and Legal Points of View

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. Vulnerability, Compassion, and Ethical Responsibility: A Buddhist Perspective on the Phenomenology of Illness and Health

      • Ellen Y. Zhang
      Pages 41-52

    3. The Ethical and the Legal Aspects of Vulnerability in the Christian Perspective

      • Stamatios Tzitzis
      Pages 53-60

    4. Family as First Bulwark for the Vulnerable: Confucian Perspectives on the Anthropology and Ethics of Human Vulnerability

      • Ping Cheung Lo
      Pages 61-77

    5. Between Tradition and Modernity: Bioethics, Human Vulnerability and Social Change

      • Prakash Desai
      Pages 79-94

    6. Human Vulnerability in Islam

      • Mustafa Abu Sway
      Pages 95-102

    7. Reflections on Human Vulnerability and the Rabbinic Perspective on Medical Ethics

      • Yechiel Michael Barilan
      Pages 103-114
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“This is a compilation of essays from different religious and cultural perspectives regarding human vulnerability in bioethics. … this book is intended for people studying or working in bioethics. It is also suitable for students of comparative religion, public policy, health policy, and other related fields. … This collection of essays is successful in sharing the authentic voices of a diverse group of religious and cultural perspectives.” (Jessica Roach, Doody’s Book Reviews, January, 2015)                 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum, School of Bioethics, Rome, Italy

    Joseph Tham, Alberto Garcia

  • UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, Rome, Italy

    Gonzalo Miranda

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics

  • Editors: Joseph Tham, Alberto Garcia, Gonzalo Miranda

  • Series Title: Advancing Global Bioethics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8736-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8735-2Published: 29 July 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0052-6Published: 27 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8736-9Published: 07 July 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2212-652X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2212-6538

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 251

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Religious Studies, general

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